"Another guy was walking away and his arm was completely shredded and there was a lot of blood.

"I could hear someone down the road screaming and shouting 'I've been shot' again and again.

"Police arrived and taped off the road but there were tons of people around. There was a huge crowd of young boys and they stayed for another couple of hours and kept making a commotion, but left at about 9.30pm."

West Midlands Police tweeted: “We’re dealing with an incident in Stratford Road, Sparkhill tonight. Diversions in place and road closed. More info shortly.

“Two men taken to hospital with gunshot wounds and one with knife injury.